US China Rivalry and the Geopolitics of AI | Jakarta Futures Forum 2025

Описание: The Great AI War Games

The AI arms race between the United States and China is not just about innovation; it’s about national power, market dominance, and ideological control. As models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek emerge as proxies for competing tech-industrial ecosystems, national strategies are increasingly defined by chip fabs, data routes, and AI capability - not just borders and bases. This panel will unpack how techno-nationalism is redrawing trade flows, digital governance, and geopolitical alignments - while countries like Taiwan, Indonesia, the UAE and India navigate strategic autonomy in a bifurcating AI world.

How is tech nationalism - from chips to cloud infrastructure - reshaping alliances, markets, and investments?
What hedging strategies are middle-power economies adopting in this AI Arms race to strike a balance between digital sovereignty and leveraging economic opportunities?
How is the AI and chip race likely to evolve over the next decade? Will new players emerge to de-risk global dependencies - or will the space harden into a binary tech bloc divide?

Speakers
Scott Cunningham, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SDGuild, United States of America
Grégoire Roos, Director, Political Dialogue & Policy Innovation, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, France

Moderator
Lavanya Mani, Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India